Unstructured-IO
bug - duplicates merged cell text following issue #2106
still having this duplicated text problem with this kind of table structure :
table doc:
after partition_docx :
python-docx 1.1.2 unstructured 0.14.3
@veredmm I'm getting "HEADER 5 4 3 2 1 AAA BBB CCC" as elements[0].text for that document, which is the expected behavior and does not repeat the text in that merged cell.
The .metadata.text_as_html for that Table element is this uniform 3 row x 8 col table:
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>HEADER</th>
<th>HEADER</th>
<th>HEADER</th>
<th>HEADER</th>
<th>HEADER</th>
<th>HEADER</th>
<th>HEADER</th>
<th>HEADER</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>5</td>
<td>4</td>
<td>4</td>
<td>3</td>
<td>2</td>
<td>2</td>
<td>1</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>AAA\nBBB\nCCC</td>
<td>AAA\nBBB\nCCC</td>
<td>AAA\nBBB\nCCC</td>
<td>AAA\nBBB\nCCC</td>
<td>AAA\nBBB\nCCC</td>
<td>AAA\nBBB\nCCC</td>
<td>AAA\nBBB\nCCC</td>
<td>AAA\nBBB\nCCC</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
The HTML table in .text_as_html is purposely made "uniform" (same number of cells in each row), which is why the same content appears in each "grid" cell of a merged cell.
If you think that should look differently, please suggest (in HTML) what you think it should look like instead and we'll consider a change.
thanks @scanny I would suggest that the content of the merged cell will appear only in the first cell(td) of the table row and the other cells will be empty
